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Dr. Jonathan Frantz Offers $1,000 Savings on LASIK This Fall

It’s Autumn, the season of change. What a great time to let iLASIK change your life.  Dr. Jonathan Frantz, Southwest Florida’s leading LASIK surgeon in experience and technology, is offering a $1,000 savings on bilateral LASIK now through December 20, 2010.  If you are at least 21 years of age and want to reduce your [...]

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Glaucoma Specialist Marc Bodman Joins Florida Eye Health Medical Team

Local Cataract and LASIK Surgeon Jonathan M. Frantz, MD, FACS, has announced that Marc G. Bodman, MD, an Ophthalmologist and Glaucoma Specialist, has joined the medical team at Florida Eye Health.
Although Dr. Bodman specializes primarily in the treatment of glaucoma, he will also see patients for general ophthalmology. Glaucoma is a condition in which the [...]

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Age-related focus dysfunction: the new presbyopia

Language, especially medical terminology, can act as a barrier to patient understanding. Presbyopia is such a term. Despite the fact that millions of Americans are presbyopes, many will simply say they have “short arms syndrome” and dismiss
the condition as a normal part of aging that is simply to be accepted not knowing there are management [...]

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Suncoast Surgery Center Receives Three-Year Accreditation

Local Ophthalmologist Jonathan M. Frantz, MD, FACS, is pleased to announce that the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. (AAAHC) has awarded Suncoast Surgery Center in Fort Myers another three-year term of accreditation.
A state-of-the-art outpatient surgery center, Suncoast Surgery Center opened in 2000 as one of Florida Eye Health’s Centers of Excellence. It is [...]

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The Truth About Cataracts and Vision Loss

Did you know that 20.5 million Americans age 40 and older have cataracts, one of the most curable causes of vision loss?
To recognize Cataract Awareness Month in August, local Cataract and LASIK Specialist Jonathan M. Frantz, MD, FACS, and ophthalmologists across the country want to debunk the myths about cataracts and remind people they don’t [...]

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